The rapper’s posthumous album is set to be released “very soon.”

At the time of his murder in June 2018, Florida rapper XXXTentacion was facing a lengthy list of felony charges, including aggravated battery of a pregnant woman, domestic battery by strangulation, false imprisonment, and witness-tampering, for allegedly assaulting his then-pregnant girlfriend. This frequently played into media coverage of the rapper’s career during his lifetime, and the relationship in question was the main theme of his 2017 debut album 17. The charges were dropped due to his death, and it seemed the case would never be resolved. Yesterday, however, Pitchfork published secretly-recorded audio of X admitting to domestic violence as well as nine stabbings in Florida.

On the tape, which was recorded around the time of his arrest in October 2016, X can be heard discussing his relationship with the victim:

I put my source of happiness in another person, which was a mistake initially, right? But she fell through on every occasion until now. Until I started fucking her up bruh. I started fucking her up because she made one mistake. And from there, the whole cycle went down. Now she’s scared. That girl is scared for her life. Which I understand… She’s scared, she thinks I’m gonna kill her.

Although it’s not included in the released audio, Pitchfork also reports that X said, “I will kill that bitch if she play with me,” elsewhere on the recording. Pitchfork obtained the 27-minute audio from the Miami-Dade County state attorney’s office, which revealed that both the prosecutors and X’s defense team considered the tape a confession.

Elsewhere on the recording, X admits to stabbing eight people in Deerfield Beach, Florida—a crime he was never charged for—as well as stabbing his former manager. He was arrested for the latter crime on July 14, 2016. According to Pitchfork, the recording also features X discussing extreme violence that he had witnessed throughout his life:

You ever seen somebody get their tongue cut out?… You ever seen somebody get raped?… You ever seen somebody try to kill your mom in front of you? Every night you go to sleep and you remember what you seen and you remember how it felt and you remember that horrible feeling in your soul. Nobody can comfort you. It’s something I gotta deal with.

While X was alive, the charges cast a dark cloud over his rising popularity. But in the months since his death, rappers like Kanye West, J. Cole, and Future have praised his music and legacy, while Lil Wayne included him on the long-awaited Tha Carter V. Fans, too, have rallied around him, sending his hit single “SAD!” to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart soon after his death and frequently arguing online that he was innocent of the domestic violence charges.

In a recent interview with Genius, X’s friend and collaborator John Cunningham said that he believed people were “scared to publicly support [X], probably from the chance of being attacked for the association,” during the rapper’s lifetime.

Cunningham also revealed that the rapper’s next album was largely finished before his June murder. There’s no exact release date yet, but his manager Solomon Sobande recently told Billboard that the project is set to drop “very soon.” It’s expected to be amongst the biggest rap releases of 2018.

X’s new album is being released through Empire. Whether this audio confession will alter plans for for his album rollout or affect sales remains to be seen.